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I haven't really use the stuff. The few times I have it simply didn't hold up. I did have one come in this year where someone had use it to patch the fuel bowl rim of a Walbro carburetor on a push mower. It had failed and clogged the jets. It simply crumbling off in small pieces and when I tested its hold it all fell off.

I ended up replacing the whole carburetor with a reclaimed unit from a new mower that another customer ran without ever putting motor oil it. There was a large in the side of that engine for some reason.

I use JB Weld nearly every day on so many things, usually with good results,and there is several types of the stuff. I guess the best way will to soak something I have JB Welded together in some petrol for a week and see how it hold up.

Well I have just wasted 2 days trying to modify a G4 carb so I could get it to work the same as I do with the modified LM carbs. I have tried and tried to get the idle down to where I wanted it to sit but no matter what I did the idle would not lower. Finally I admitted defeat, and I put on an untested modified LM I already had sitting there and inside half an hour I had swapped them over and it now works perfectly. I cannot understand why I can't get the G4 to perform the same as the LM's. I kept trying because I believed I could master it but I admit defeat on this one. I have another G4 here so I will eventually have a go at that one to see if I can get that one to work

I use this for repairing plastic. with great success... Strong & easy to file/sand to shape/fit.. but this was with Rc fuel (Nitro)

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Thanks Paul, any idea how it handles petrol? I don't think it would , I haven't used Q-bond for probably 30 years, I had forgotten about it

Not sure & I have none left to try out.. Q-bond uses CA glue & the only way to dissolve it was Acetone ( nail polish remover ) I use it to remove rubber tires from Plastic rimms that I've glued on with CA glue..

Hi Paul, I'm not wanting to use it as a glue, I want to use it to build up three small sections on the carby cam on these where somebody at Victa went on a long lunch and came back to the drawing board with this stupid notch in the cam when you move the throttle back to the stop position. It is all well and good for the spider to drop down, but then to get the spider to lift back up is often impossible and this can then either pop the cable out of its locating spot or bend the cable. One of the Victa design mysteries. The other is this bizare rusting of the bases in the left hand top corner where the handle bolts on. I guess if you make a tough motor, you have to build in another weak point in the machine, otherwise nobody would need to buy a new mower. That is bad for business. This is obviously why there is always new Victa bases for sale on ebay, but at the prices they want, I would be surprised if the ever sold any

It's what Q-bond use as the binding agent for the plastic filler powder in the kit..